04Aug/15

EXCLUSIVE: State senator wants to increase organ donations in New York – New York Daily News


New York Daily News

EXCLUSIVE: State senator wants to increase organ donations in New York
New York Daily News
ALBANY — A Queens state senator wants to increase organ donations in New York by adding a line on a host of state forms that would allow people to sign up. Sen. Jose Peralta on Tuesday will announce a bill that would require a range of applications, …

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04Aug/15

‘Major religions view organ donation as charity’ – Times of India


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‘Major religions view organ donation as charity’
Times of India
If you look at the international scenario in organ donation, we are way behind. Now that I run a hospital, I’ve come to understand more about the gaps. In India, organs that can save lives are in short supply . Only one of 30 people who need a kidney
Giving The Gift of Life : Organ Donationknopnews2
Donor a life or death decisionCommunity Newspaper Group

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03Aug/15

Father organizes blood drives to honor son’s ‘miracle comeback’ – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Father organizes blood drives to honor son’s ‘miracle comeback’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rasheed Markis (left) was involved in a serious car crash six years ago and needed 46 pints of blood. Now 18, he donated blood for the first time in a drive organized by his father, Bilal Markis (right). The blood drive was held in the Bay View Library

03Aug/15

Editorial: Feel free to worry you’re paying a ‘Berrios tax’ on your home – Chicago Sun-Times


Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Feel free to worry you’re paying a ‘Berrios tax’ on your home
Chicago Sun-Times
But the way property taxes work, any favors an assessor hands out in the form of lower assessments to big businesses must be offset with higher taxes on the rest of us — those of us who don’t have high-priced lawyers, aren’t major donors, don’t have a

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03Aug/15

Organ donation a comfort in grief – Wangaratta Chronicle


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Organ donation a comfort in grief
Wangaratta Chronicle
LOCAL women on both sides of organ donation are urging the public to consider registering as organ donors as Australia marks DonateLife Week (August 2-9). Michelle Stone has seen the good that organ donation can do since the loss of her father, Barry …
Canberrans urged to become organ donors as ACT’s first organ donor remembered ABC Online
Mum of ACT’s first organ donor speaks 40 years after daughter diesThe Canberra Times

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